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Hospices Will See Stars Soon

Published on Fri Sep 18, 2015

Medicare continues to move forward with its plan to assign star ratings to hospices on a Hospice Compare website. In its 2016 final payment rule for hospices, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services confirms that it plans to publicly report hospice quality data derived from the new HIS and CAHPS requirements. But CMS still isn’t committing to when the [...]
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